15 Responses to “What the @#$@#$ is he saying here?”

‘Piss off’ can mean the same thing as ‘f*ck off’…it’s mostly a Britishism, but not unheard of in Canada, so he could be not repeating himself. (Though I don’t know that ‘piss’ really warrants the munging.)

“But you need to BACK the F–K off” makes sense, but I’m not sure what curse word he means instead of “BACK”. “the F–K” is added for emphasis, so the phrase is “’something’ off!”. I can only think of two phrases like that which would be cursing, and they have been mentioned above –

Although I read, and loved, superhero comics as a kid I’m not a fan of the recent movies or graphic novels. I don’t hate them, I’m just not interested. I’d like to thank James Schend for his Wolverine education - I had no idea that Wolverine was Canadian. Makes sense as wolverines like colder climates.

Caio McCaioson - While I’m sure there are plenty of people in the U.S. who use “piss off” the way, I think, you mean it, it’s not as common as it is in Canada an the U.K. Here you’d more likely hear “f*ck off”. The words piss and f*ck aren’t interchangeable though in other phrases. “I’m pissed” and “I’m f*cked” don’t mean the same thing at all.

I agree with Karlos @1. Some people swear so much they don’t even realize they’re swearing. There’s a funny scene in “Midnight Run” where Robert de Niro says something like, “I got two words for you: shut the f*** up.”

@ 8 & 9 - this Canadian thanks you for the laugh. To be honest, it didn’t occur to me that “pissed off” was a swear until I inadvertently used it in front of a class of 13 year olds (because I was annoyed at a machine that kept requiring repair, not at them). They shared this fact with their French teacher, who informed them that it was “better to be pissed OFF than than pissed ON.”